Peabody Ice Cream Man Who Set World Record Featured on Chronicle

Local residents tuning into WCVB Channel 5’s popular Chronicle program on Wednesday night saw a familiar face.

The long-running news program featured a segment on an even longer-running ice cream man, Peabody’s own Allan ”Al” Ganz.

Ganz holds the Guiness World Record for ”Longest Career as an Ice Cream Man.”

You can watch some of the footage from Chronicle here. >>>

Of course, the Patch had the scoop on Ganz earlier this summer.

Ganz joined his father’s ice cream truck and starting selling with his dad at the age of 10 in 1947, according to Guinness World Records. Then, they sold ice cream Everett and Malden, Massachusetts, cities outside Boston. Ganz, 77, continued working with his dad until he was 19.

After a 22-month stint in the armed forces, he returned to selling with his dad and has not stopped serving since. His father sold ice cream until he turned 86.

Photo Credit: Guinness World Records